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Title: Strategy for Migration of Traditional to Hybrid Control Boards in a Nuclear Power Plant

Abstract

This strategy document describes the NUREG-0711 based human factors engineering (HFE) phases and associated elements required to support design, verification and validation (V&V), and implementation of new digital control room elements in a legacy analog main control room (MCR). Information from previous planning and analysis work serves as the foundation for creating a human-machine interface (HMI) specification for distributed control systems (DCSs) to be implemented as part of nuclear power plant (NPP) modernization. This document reviews ways to take the HMSI specification and use it when migrating legacy displays or designing displays with new functionality. These displays undergo iterative usability testing during the design phase and then an integrated system validation (ISV) in the full-scope control room training simulator. Following successful demonstration of operator performance using the systems during the ISV, the new DCS is implemented at the plant, first in the training simulator and then in the MCR. This document concludes with a sample project plan, including a 15-month timeline from DCS design through implementation. Included is a discussion of how the U.S. Department of Energy’s Human System Simulation Laboratory (HSSL) can be used to support design and V&V activities. This report completes a Level 4 (M4) milestone undermore » the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Light Water Reactor Sustainability (LWRS) Program.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
OSTI Identifier:
1236821
Report Number(s):
INL/EXT-14-32534
TRN: US1600282
DOE Contract Number:  
AC07-05ID14517
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; CONTROL ROOMS; VALIDATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS; DESIGN; HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING; WATER COOLED REACTORS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; IMPLEMENTATION; SPECIFICATIONS; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; SIMULATION; MODIFICATIONS; VERIFICATION; main control room; modernization

Citation Formats

Boring, Ronald Laurids, Joe, Jeffrey Clark, and Ulrich, Thomas Anthony. Strategy for Migration of Traditional to Hybrid Control Boards in a Nuclear Power Plant. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.2172/1236821.
Boring, Ronald Laurids, Joe, Jeffrey Clark, & Ulrich, Thomas Anthony. Strategy for Migration of Traditional to Hybrid Control Boards in a Nuclear Power Plant. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1236821
Boring, Ronald Laurids, Joe, Jeffrey Clark, and Ulrich, Thomas Anthony. 2014. "Strategy for Migration of Traditional to Hybrid Control Boards in a Nuclear Power Plant". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1236821. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1236821.
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title = {Strategy for Migration of Traditional to Hybrid Control Boards in a Nuclear Power Plant},
author = {Boring, Ronald Laurids and Joe, Jeffrey Clark and Ulrich, Thomas Anthony},
abstractNote = {This strategy document describes the NUREG-0711 based human factors engineering (HFE) phases and associated elements required to support design, verification and validation (V&V), and implementation of new digital control room elements in a legacy analog main control room (MCR). Information from previous planning and analysis work serves as the foundation for creating a human-machine interface (HMI) specification for distributed control systems (DCSs) to be implemented as part of nuclear power plant (NPP) modernization. This document reviews ways to take the HMSI specification and use it when migrating legacy displays or designing displays with new functionality. These displays undergo iterative usability testing during the design phase and then an integrated system validation (ISV) in the full-scope control room training simulator. Following successful demonstration of operator performance using the systems during the ISV, the new DCS is implemented at the plant, first in the training simulator and then in the MCR. This document concludes with a sample project plan, including a 15-month timeline from DCS design through implementation. Included is a discussion of how the U.S. Department of Energy’s Human System Simulation Laboratory (HSSL) can be used to support design and V&V activities. This report completes a Level 4 (M4) milestone under the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Light Water Reactor Sustainability (LWRS) Program.},
doi = {10.2172/1236821},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1236821}, journal = {},
number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}